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Old Square Tax Chambers is an elite set whose members are among the best regarded tax barristers in practice.

We provide independent advice on all areas of tax. We provide assistance in tax disputes of all types and can help taxpayers in all their dealings with HMRC. Members of chambers have appeared in tax litigation from the First-tier Tribunal to the Supreme Court and CJEU. Particular areas in which barristers at Old Square Tax Chambers excel include trusts and estate planning, employee taxation, foreign domiciliaries, corporate taxation, international taxation, VAT and SDLT.

If you wish to discuss instructing one of us or would like further information, our Senior Clerk Tony Hall will be happy to help.

RECENT NEWS & EVENTS

Harriet Brown recently acted for the taxpayer in Wallace v HMRC. The taxpayer had brought a claim against HMRC to recover amounts wrongly paid to HMRC under a mistake of law. HMRC applied to strike out the taxpayer’s claim on the basis that since the introduction of the Taxes Management Act 1970, Schedule 1AB the statute included express words to that effect, that a common law claim was not available to the taxpayer. The judgment can be found here.

Patrick Cannon recently acted jointly for the taxpayers in successfully challenging two search warrants obtained by HMRC from Blackfriars Crown Court by way of a judicial review . The search warrants were quashed by the …

Philip Simpson, Q.C., of Old Square Tax Chambers, successfully represented the Advocate General in a Supreme Court challenge by the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) to the Scottish Government’s Alcohol (Minimum Pricing) (Scotland) Act 2012. The appellants presented a petition for judicial review challenging the lawfulness of the Act and arguing that minimum unit pricing was disproportionate under EU law, breached world trade law, and breached the Treaty and Act of Union by which England and Scotland united in 1707. The factual basis of the challenge was, in summary, that the same effect could be achieved by increasing excise duties, whether alone or in combination with other measures.
A copy of the Judgment can be seen here.

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